Ernesto Montecuccoli

Ernesto Graf Montecuccoli (1582-17 June 1633) was a general of the Holy Roman Empire during the Thirty Years' War.

Biography
Ernesto Graf Montecuccoli was born to the Montecuccoli family of Modena, Italy in 1582, and he became a general in the service of the Holy Roman Empire during the Thirty Years' War. In 1632, his army burnt down Knittlingen in Baden-Wurttemberg in southern Germany, and he was defeated by Gustav Horn at Wiesloch that same year. Montecuccoli died in 1633, and his nephew Raimondo Montecuccoli would become a renowned general during the same war.